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Tullis Onstott
Professor of Geosciences (Geomicrobiology)

Department of Geosciences
B79 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-7678
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Date and Place of Birth
 

        Jan. 12, 1955, Carlsbad, New Mexico

Education
 

        B.S. Geophysics, Calif. Inst. of Technology, 1976.

        M.A. and Ph.D. Geology, Princeton University, 1980.

Employment History


Research Assistant at U.S.G.S. Flagstaff, Arizona, 1974-1976.

Post-doctoral fellow, Princeton University, 1980-1983.
Research and study at Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, 1980-1982.
Research associate, Princeton University, 1983-1985.

Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1985-1991.

Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1991-2001.

Full Professor, Princeton University, 2001-present.

 

Other Professional Experiences
 

  U.S. representative to IGCP 108/144 "Correlation of West Africa and Eastern
         Brazil
", 1980-1984.

  Chairman, GSA Special Symposium on-"Radiometric Calibration of thermal

         histories of rocks"-GSA Nat. Mtg.,1985.

  Chairman of U.S. working group for IGCP 204 "Precambrian Geology of the

         Amazonas Craton", 1987-1988.

  Editor, Special Issue of Precamb. Res.,42, 1988.

  Consultant to Siljan Deep Drill Hole Project, 1987-1988.

  Associate editor for Precambrian Research, 1988-1994.

  Co-convener of special session at Baltimore AGU, "High resolution isotope

         geochemistry and implications for material science", 1991.

  Editor, Special Issue of Precamb. Res., "Precambrian Paleomagnetism,

        Paleogeography and Paleoclimates, 1994.

  Co-Chairman of Deep Microbiology Working Group, Subsurface Science

         Program, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1994-1996.

  Co-Chairman of Special Session on Subsurface Microbial Processes, Fall

         Meeting of American Geophysical Union, 1996.

  Member of Review Panel for Environmental Management Science

         Program, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1996.

  Program Committee Member for 1997 SPIE Conference for Investigation

         of Extraterrestrial Microorganisms.

  Member of NASA Workshop on Mars Drilling, NASA Ames, Dec. 1996.

  Member of NASA Workshop on Mars Sample Return, NASA Ames, June 1997.

  Member of NASA Workshop on Mars Drilling, Los Alamos, May 1998.

  Member of Review Panel for LExEn Program, NSF, 2000.

Member of Review Panel for MERCUP Program, NASA, 2003.

Member of Ad Hoc Committee for Homestake Conversion Project, NSF, 2004.

Associate Director of Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Institute, 2004.

Member of NASA/MEPAG Team on Mars Sample Return-Organic Contamination, JPL, Oct. 2004.

Awards and Fellowships
 

        Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985-1989.

        Jubilee Medal, Geological Society of South Africa, 1988.

        U.S. Dept. of Energy Award for Meritorious Accomplishments in the field of

         Subsurface Microbiology, 1996.

        U.S. Dept. of Energy Award for Meritorious Achievements, 1998.

Appreciation Award for Research Excellence Office of Science, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2002.

 

 

 


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